The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-21
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THE COUNT NEARLY ENDED.

done him.
THE COUNT NEARLY ENDED.
The count of the cash and securities
| In the Treasurer's Office which began
May %, win probably be concluded this
week, as only the gold coin remains to
be counted. The funds on hand
amounted to 500, 500, 900, of which SOL
SOC, 600 was in standard silver dollars,
SIS, OOO, 600 in gold coin 1900, 900 in
| fractional silver coin and the balance
| in notes and certificates. In examin-
ing the silver vaults several bags con-
| tanning standard silver dollars were
found to be short two or three pieces
| each. These were gradually recovered
| however, as the count progressed, until
| all were found. So far as known, not
single penny's deficiency has yet been
discovered.
A SPARKS DECISION REVERSED.
Acting Secretary Muldrow, of the
Interior Department, to-day rendered
a decision according to married women
the right to enter and purchase timber
and stone lands under the law govern
ing the sale of such lands in the states
| OF Mississippi, Louisiana, California,
New Mexico, Oregon and Washington
territory. This law allows the sale of
lands obviously untitled for all pur-
p ses at a minimum price of $3.50 per
acre. in tracts of not to exceed 100
acres to any one person or association.
The Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office, in the case
of Isabel Duryea, involving an
entry of land on the Humboldt dis
trict of California decided the law did
not contemplate married women as
separate from their husbands in such
entries and that but one entry by the
head of the family could be allowed.
The Secretary reverSeS the decision and
allows married woman to make en-
try to the ground that she acts as
feme sole in making the purchase.
About forty cases governed by the rul-
ing laid down in this case are now
pending in the general land Office.
SETTLERS COMPLAINT.
WASHINGTON, d. c., July 10. - A
petition signed by ten residents of
Mineral City, which is on a neutra
strip known as mo Mans Land" ~
ing south of Kansas, has been received
by the President, deprecating his fail
ure to sign the bill passed by both
Houses of Congress at the last session
annexing No Mans Land to the state
of Kansas. The petition represents
been monopOliZed by large and infuen-
tial cattle companies, many of them
foreign corporations, who fenced off for
their own purposes thousands of acres
of valuable land, and whose ever aim
is to keep out the honest and hard
working farmer. The petition states
that from twenty to thirty families are
daily entering the strip and locating
buildings, houses, and breaking ground
for crop. The railroads are making
surveys, and some are about commenc-
ing to grade. Towns are springing up
and the people are spending their
money in building, and yet they can
not get title to the ground they are
building upon. Business is impeded,
because trade is unprotected. The pc
titioners ask that their statements be
Investigated and such action taken as
will best protect them in their rights.
CAPTAIN SIMPSON RETIRED.
The Army Retiring Board, of which
Quartermaster General Holaberd is
President, has recommended the re-
tirement of Capt. j. F. Simpson, of the
Third Cavalry, who is now under
treatment at the Government Hospital
for the Insane. Captain Simpson is
the officer who created a scandal in
Arizona a few years ago by his con-
duct with notorious woman.
He was contaminated and sentenced
to dismissal. President Arthur,
however, disapproved the findings of
the court martial, and ordered the Off
GERS restoration of duty. He was Os-
TRACKED by his brother officers and was
subsequently sent to an insane asylum
for treatment. He will probably be re-
tired as soon as vacancy occurs on
the retired list.
REMEMBERED BY THE KAISER.
The Secretary of State has received
through the German Minister at Wash
ington from the Emperor of Germany
check for 81, 900 and two handsome
gold watches, embellished with the
likeness and monogram of the Emper-
or, with the request that the money be
divided equally among the families of
the five members of the Live Saving
crew at Damnecks Station, Va, who
lost their lives in attempting to rescue
the crew of the German ship Elizabeth
on the Sth of January last, and that the
watches be presented to Frank Ted
ford and Joseph E. Etheridge, the only
survivors of the life saving crew. The
money and watches have been turned
over to General Superintendent KIM
ball for distribution.
BELGIUM'S STRINGENT IMPORT.
Dispatches have been received at the
Department of State from the United
States Minister to Belgium, annOunc-
ing that the government of that coun-
try has increased the import duty on
coffee and meat and that after January
LIST next, meat will be prohibited to
enter Belgium except in the form OF
whole animals and halves and quarters,
and then only when the lungs are
tested.
NO AUTHORITY IN THE PREMISES.
In reply to letter to a cattle owner
on the tract known as mo Mans
Land, !" asking whether portion of the
herders occupying the land can form
an organization and adopt a herd law
to govern the free range men, Land
Commissioner Sparks states that no
person, organization or association has
any right or color of authority to make
herd regulations or any other regula-
tions in respect to the occupation of
lands in the public land strip. These
are public lands of the United States, -
continues the Commissioner, land
never have been made subject to the
lawful occupation or entry under any
of the public land laws, and have
heretofore recommended the employ
ment of the military forces to remove
therefrom all who are not actual set
tiers, and who are using or controlling
more than 100 acreS.n